Origin of the photoluminescence of metal nanoclusters: from metal-centered emission to ligand-centered emission

TQ Yang, B Peng, BQ Shan, YX Zong, JG Jiang, P Wu… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Recently, metal nanoclusters (MNCs) emerged as a new class of luminescent materials and
have attracted tremendous interest in the area of luminescence-related applications due to …

Coinage metal clusters: From superatom chemistry to genetic materials

B Yin, Z Luo - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Building metal materials with well-defined components and the monomer-genetic property is
one of the foremost challenges in chemistry and materials science. In recent years, metal …

Driving forces and routes for aggregation-induced emission-based highly luminescent metal nanocluster assembly

D Bera, N Goswami - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of ultrasmall, luminescent metal nanoclusters (MNCs) with aggregation-
induced emission (AIE) characteristics is a relatively new research area that has gained …

Self-assembled metal nanoclusters: Driving forces and structural correlation with optical properties

S Kolay, D Bain, S Maity, A Devi, A Patra, R Antoine - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Studies on self-assembly of metal nanoclusters (MNCs) are an emerging field of research
owing to their significant optical properties and potential applications in many areas …

Regulating the optical properties of gold nanoclusters for biological applications

S Zhu, X Wang, Y Cong, L Li - ACS omega, 2020 - ACS Publications
Gold nanoclusters are promising optically functional materials because of their attractive
optical properties, such as luminescence, two-photon absorption, photothermal conversion …

The emergence of mass spectrometry for characterizing nanomaterials. Atomically precise nanoclusters and beyond

C Comby-Zerbino, X Dagany, F Chirot, P Dugourd… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Mass spectrometry (MS) is widely used in molecular science, and is now emerging as a
characterization technique for ultra-small nanoparticles. In the field of atomically precise …

Ligand impact on reactive oxygen species generation of Au10 and Au25 nanoclusters upon one- and two-photon excitation

H Fakhouri, MP Bakulić, I Zhang, H Yuan… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
In photodynamic therapy (PDT), light-sensitive photosensitizers produce reactive oxygen
species (ROS) after irradiation in the presence of oxygen. Atomically-precise thiolate …

Excellent multiphoton excitation fluorescence with large multiphoton absorption cross sections of arginine-modified gold nanoclusters for bioimaging

Z Wei, Y Pan, G Hou, X Ran, Z Chi, Y He… - … applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent gold nanoclusters (Au NCs) with excellent one-photon and multiphoton
properties have been demonstrated as promising candidates in many application fields …

Tailoring the NIR‐II Photoluminescence of Single Thiolated Au25 Nanoclusters by Selective Binding to Proteins**

F Bertorelle, KD Wegner… - … A European Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically precise gold nanoclusters are a fascinating class of nanomaterials that exhibit
molecule‐like properties and have outstanding photoluminescence (PL). Their ultrasmall …

Structural water molecules dominated p band intermediate states as a unified model for the origin on the photoluminescence emission of noble metal nanoclusters …

B Peng, JF Zhou, M Ding, BQ Shan… - … and Technology of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the past several decades, noble metal nanoclusters (NMNCs) have been developed as
an emerging class of luminescent materials due to their superior photo-stability and …